Abstract: | Reaction of HN3 with hydroxyethylnitrolic acid yielded 5-hydroxymethyl-1-hydroxytetrazole, from which were prepared by methylation and further conversions hitherto unknown 5-XCH2-1-methoxytetrazoles, in which X = Cl, Br, I, OH, NO3, and N3.N. D. Zelinskii Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117913 Moscow. Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 7, pp. 1619–1621, July, 1992. |